Looking at the weather forecast for this weekend it might be that cycling will be too much “fun”, with wind anticpated at 35mph and heavy rain, I might wimp out. Anyway I will be trying some new music on Sunday to make up for it – The Deep Dark Woods and Trembling Bells are visiting Brighton – mmmm should be interesting.

Back to 2 things to do with the serious business of vinyl records and record cleaning

One of the great things about many of the records being pressed now is the high quality of the vinyl – this hasn’t always been the case – you only have to look at some of the early ’60’s Jazz Records where some record label’s vinyl was kind of noisy – and the super flimsy early “70’s US pressings – but I found these gems stashed away in some mid ’50’s US Contemporary/Stereo records that I thought you might like to look at.

Finally for tonights ramblings I thought I would add a photo of the dust collected on a “new” unplayed record. “New” is perhaps misleading – it is a record that has been sitting in a paper sleeve undisturbed and sealed in shrinkwrap since it was made in the mid ’60’s. The white lines are dust. The record was dirt cheap! Actually this is a Fine Arts Quartet recording of Beethoven on “Concert Disc” records – it sounds amazing.